100 Top Wallace Stegner Quotes To Learn From
Wallace Earle Stegner, well-known as the ‘Dean of Western Writers’, was an American historian, environmentalists, novelist and short story writer who encourage the need for preserving the West in younger generation of authors. This world-famous author received Commonwealth Club Gold Medal for ‘All the Little live Things’ (1967), Pulitzer Prize for ‘Angle of Repose’ (1972) and the U.S. National Book Award for The Spectator Bird (1977).It’s unfair to categorize him as merely a ‘western writer’. His works cover both non-fiction and fiction ideas upholding conservation ideals. Books like Where the Bluebird Sings to the Lemonade Springs, The Big Rock Candy Mountain, Living and Writing in the West and Beyond the Hundredth Meridian earned him millions of followers in his life time. A collection of short essays on significant issues earned him the famous National Book Critics Circle nomination. Stegner believed a fiction writer has no other agenda but to tell truth. This ideology inspired several aspiring American writers to seek and present their own version of truth in their writing. Having a flair for reading writing and researching, Stegner wanted to belong to something and he did, to Western environment, history and culture. We have collected his quotes from his most popular works and writings. Here is a collection of best Wallace Earle Stegner quotes!
Most things break, including hearts. The lessons of life amount not to wisdom, but to scar tissue and callus.
Home is a notion that only nations of the homeless fully appreciate and only the uprooted comprehend.
Wisdom. . .is knowing what you have to accept.
It is an easy mistake to think that non-talkers are non-feelers.
It is the beginning of wisdom when you recognize that the best you can do is choose which rules you want to live by, and it's persistent and aggravated imbecility to pretend you can live without any.
The lessons of life amount not to wisdom, but to scar tissue and callus.
He used to tell me, 'Do what you like to do. It'll probably turn out to be what you do best.
There it was, there it is, the place where during the best time of our lives friendship had its home and happiness its headquarters.
She had rooms in her mind that she would not look into.
Be proud of every scar on your heart, each one holds a lifetime’s worth of lessons.
There is a sense in which we are all each other's consequences.
We write to make sense of it all.
Youth hasn't got anything to do with chronological age. It's times of hope and happiness.
You'll do what you think you want to do, or what you think you ought to do. If you're very lucky, luckier than anybody I know, the two will coincide.
Towns are like people. Old ones often have character, the new ones are interchangeable.
I shall be richer all my life for this sorrow
Our last impression of her as she turned the corner was that smile, flung backward like a handful of flowers.
Do we respond only to people who seem to find us interesting?
You can't retire to weakness -- you've got to learn to control strength.
In a way, it is beautiful to be young and hard up. With the right wife, and I had her, deprivation became a game.
A writer is an organism that will go on writing even after its heart has been cut out.
It is love and friendship, the sanctity and celebration of our relationships, that not only support a good life, but create one. Through friendships, we spark and inspire one another's ambitions.
Wherever you find the greatest good, you will find the greatest evil, because evil loves paradise as much as good.
You married me...but you didn't marry what you could make out of me.
It's easier to die than to move ... at least for the Other Side you don't need trunks.
No life goes past so swiftly as an eventless one, no clock spins like a clock whose days are all alike.
Faith can reclaim deserts as well as move mountains.
Hope was always out ahead of fact, possibility obscured the outlines of reality.
We are fossils in the making.
No one who has studied Western history can cling to the belief that the Nazis invented genocide.
